Biden admin altered $20B EPA slush fund just days before Trumps inauguration, Zeldin reveals

The Biden administration tinkered with $20 billion that was funneled into newly founded environmental groups just days before the lame-duck president left office, Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin revealed Thursday. The recently discovered slush fund that was parked at Citibank was last altered on Jan.13 — a week before President Trump’s inauguration — and quickly doled out to a handful of far-left climate nonprofits with little oversight from the EPA, Zeldin told Fox News host Jesse Watters. “We have to ensure that there’s accountability here, and we have to make sure the federal government establishes oversight.

We can’t afford as a country to have this money wasted.We should have zero tolerance for even a penny of waste and abuse,” the former New York congressman said.

Zeldin added that Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel are focused and motivated as they review the tax dollars purposely wasted by the lame-duck president’s administration.“The Justice Department and FBI have been working very closely with us.” The EPA administrator announced last month he located the $20 billion that his predecessors squirreled away in an apparent attempt to prevent the Trump administration from clawing back the money and to obscure the eight entities tasked with distributing the funds. Zeldin, at the time, expressed concern that the $20 billion would be handed out to “far-left activist groups” without any federal oversight, and perhaps even to groups with close ties to the Biden administration. The climate fund was part of the Inflation Reduction Act’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund – a 2022 law that was aimed at combatting climate change and creating clean energy. The money was eventually funneled into environmental groups, most of which had only recently been founded. In one case, former Vice President Kamala Harris handed over a check for nearly $7 million to the Maryland-based Climate United Fund just five m...